On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 11:56 -0500, jd wrote: > > I would love to see the likes of the "Damn Small Linux" community > working on both apps and a port of the software. Let's face it, that > community is the best at getting rid of bloat and fitting powerful apps > on less than desirable hardware.
Yes and most of that stuff screams even on cheesy gear. > I did this shortly after rooting. It's like getting a windows machine > from <insert name of manufacturer> . Its loaded with apps that I would > never care to use. Except this time around, they took it a few steps > further in order to prevent the consumer from removing it. Yes, that you can't just go to applications and remove said unwanted applications, really lame! > 1) I added a task killer. There are several on the market place. Many > more or less have the same functionality. I have yet to find one I really like. Most times when I want to kill a task, launching the task killer/manager/etc tends to be a pita just to get to where I wan to kill a service. > 2) I added communications controls to easily toggle on or off: wi-fi, > 4g, bluetooth, gps, sync setting. Thankfully either later version of Android 2.x or might be something specific to Cynanogenmod not sure, but all those controls are there by default now and controllable. I think its part of ADW, which is a default for Cyanogenmod. > 3) I added a cache cleaner and an app called fast reboot. Might need to look into those two things. > 4) Added an icon to take me directly to manage applications. Hopefully I can avoid such, but had links like that in the past. Had to install another app just to be able to make links like that, anycut. > 5) Added DroidWall (iptables control) icon as well as ASpotCat to > monitor application permissions. Thats something I need to look into more. > I'm sure there are others, but those come off the top of my head. This > "control panel" gives me the flexibility to quickly adjust settings on > the phone so that I can use a feature only when I need it. It has > increased performance and increased my battery life greatly. > > I would be interested in hearing what methods could be used to increase > security and privacy on this platform. Others will have to comment on such, I haven't spent any time there just yet. > Droidwall is a start, but it seems like the browser could use something > like noscript by default. > > I read about an app that uses a database to fool the phone into syncing > locally vs gmail. Im sorry I do not remember the name of the app and a > very quick search didnt return results. > > As draconian as it is, creating hosts file entries from known malware > domains may help with security somewhat. > > http://www.malwaredomains.com/ Interesting stuff, probably could fool the phone into local things for a variety of things. Like stopping auto completion while your trying to type and its not helping you trying to fill in things for you :) Funny how things we make to help us out just get in our way... -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
